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There had been compensations all through and were not the great passion of her Solesby days, together with the interest and novelty of her London experience, enough to give zest and glow to the whole retrospect? Ah! but it will be observed that in this sketch of Marcella's schooldays nothing has been said of Marcella's holidays.
But when in the course of reminiscence Marcella found herself once more at Solesby, memory began to halt and wander, to choose another tone and method. At Solesby the rough surroundings and primitive teaching of Cliff House, together with her own burning sense of inferiority and disadvantage, had troubled her no more.
She was well taught there, and developed quickly from the troublesome child into the young lady duly broken in to all social proprieties. But it was not her lessons or her dancing masters that she remembered. She had made for herself agitations at Cliff House, but what were they as compared to the agitations of Solesby!
He treated Ferguson like a dog and me like a suspicious character." "Dear me, Wayne," she murmured, "don't get in trouble." "Trouble!" he scoffed. "Well if I can get in trouble for talking with an intelligent man I'm working with about the things that man knows then let me get in trouble! I'd rather talk to Ferguson than Solesby we've more in common. Oh I'll get in no trouble," he added grimly.
I've never been satisfied discipline couldn't be enforced without snobbery. To-day Solesby one year out of West Point! walked through a shop I was in. He passed men working at their machines skilled mechanics, many of them men of intelligence, ideas, character as though he were passing so much cattle. I wanted to take him by the neck and throw him out!"
The result was that a month or two later Marcella, now close on her fourteenth birthday, was transferred from Cliff House to the charge of a lady who managed a small but much-sought-after school for young ladies at Solesby, a watering place on the east coast.
Those precious letters had worn themselves away; so, too, had Marcella's religious feelings; she was once more another being. But these two years since she had said good-bye to Solesby and her school days? Once set thinking of bygones by the stimulus of Mellor and its novelty, Marcella must needs think, too, of her London life, of all that it had opened to her, and meant for her.
Fresh agitations! fresh passions! but this time impersonal, passions of the mind and sympathies. At the time she left Solesby her father and mother were abroad, and it was apparently not convenient that she should join them. Marcella, looking back, could not remember that she had ever been much desired at home.
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